Federal Court Agrees with FTC in Ruling Qualcomm Must License Standard-Essential Patents to Competitors
Posted
11/9/18
By
David Golden
The Federal Trade Commission won a key ruling against Qualcomm in federal court on Tuesday that could herald greater limits on tech companies’ ability to unilaterally dictate how they license their standard-essential patents.
Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Qualcomm must license its standard-essential patents (“SEPs”) for 4G/LTE baseband chips to...